Observer

by Robert Lanza

‘Quantum foam’ refers to the basic ‘stuff’ in the universe, the stuff that exists before you even get to basic particles such as electrons. ‘Superposition’ means that the quantum foam is not matter, nor energy, but just the potential of becoming either. It is, basically, just a cloud of probabilities.

She lay—at six years old? Seven?—on a blanket in the back garden, watching clouds drift across the sky. Then, all at once, the clouds were no longer there, and neither was Caro. She was nowhere and everywhere, woven into what she later thought of as “the fabric of the universe.” She was the clouds, the grass, the breeze, the ant crawling across her arm. Everything was her, and she was everything.

‘There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.’

“Schopenhauer: ‘All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it’s violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.’”